Tuned 2023 Nissan Z Breaks 500 WHP And Runs 11.43-Second Quarter Mile

The 2023 Nissan Z provides loads of bang per buck straight out of the field. Ranging from $40k, you get a rear-wheel drive 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 coupe that makes 400 hp (406 PS) and might race to 60 mph (97 km/h) within the low-four-second vary.

However Chicago-based tuner AMS was capable of make huge efficiency features by equipping its not too long ago acquired yellow Z Proto computerized with some pretty easy bolt-on mods that can make sure the Nissan has nothing to worry from its Toyota Supra arch rival that has proved barely sooner compared exams.

First, let’s discuss numbers. In inventory tune AMS’s Z made 373 hp (378 PS) on the wheels, suggesting Nissan’s 400-horse flywheel determine is moderately conservative. And we all know from Hagerty’s drag race video {that a} mod-free instance like that with the automated transmission can cowl the standing quarter mile in 12.3 seconds at 116 mph (187 km/h).

With AMS’s mods utilized the engine output jumped to 500 hp on the wheels (507 PS), the quarter-mile time tumbled to 11.43 seconds and the entice velocity improved to 124 mph (200 km/h) on a “chilly and unprepped floor”, which the tuner says “doubtless damage our 60′ instances greater than they helped”.

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These features got here courtesy of latest exhaust and downpipes, warmth exchanger, intercooler, a remap to benefit from 100-octane gasoline and a set of 28-inch Hoosier drag slicks. Using the tires may show barely controversial for some Z followers, as a result of whereas it’s attention-grabbing to see how far a Z may be pushed with solely bolt-on mods, they clearly make the automobile unlawful to make use of on the general public street.

However an earlier submit on AMS’s Fb web page has excellent news for anybody wanting to enhance their Z’s efficiency however unwilling or unable to decide to becoming so many components and limiting themselves to high-octane juice. Earlier than the blokes had jumped into the larger mods they’d labored up a brand new calibration for the inventory automobile that lifted its 373 whp to 440 hp (446 PS) on the wheels, with out the necessity to gasoline up with something greater than extensively out there 93 octane gasoline.